Before she leaves her current job, Clinton will testify in an open House hearing on the attacks in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.

A “Cuomo associate” called the Senate Democrats “crooks, plain and simple.”

The Rev. Al Sharpton is pledging to hold rallies in the home districts of four IDC members – Sens. Jeff Klein, Malcolm Smith, David Carlucci and Diane Savino – to protest their alliance with the Senate Republicans.

Sharpton said the power struggle in the Senate is “not a Cuomo story.”

State Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long called on the Republicans to either reject Cuomo’s “litmus test” of liberal issues he wants the new Senate leadership team to push through or face widespread primaries in two years.

Sens. Charles Schumer and Robert Menendez want to make all Sandy repair expenses fully tax deductible, reducing the tax bite of victims in their returns covering the current year.

The MTA Long Island Rail Road will operate full morning and evening rush hour service beginning tomorrow morning.

Warnings of a superstorm like Sandy and a requirement in a 1978 law to create a regularly updated plan for the restoration of “vital services” after a storm went mostly unheeded by New York leaders.

The Staten Island Advance wants to know what happened to the post-Sandy rebuilding council promised by Bloomberg.

A federal hearing on whether the Indian Point nuclear power plant will continue making electricity for another 20 years resumes tomorrow.

New York regulators will begin taking public comments on revised gas-drilling rules this week.

New York’s electors will cast their votes for the 2012 presidential election in Albany tomorrow Dec. 17.

A bill authorizing Catskill OTB to open off-track betting parlors in the Big Apple — and potentially employ hundreds of workers who lost their jobs when New York City OTB-run parlors were shuttered two years ago — is on Cuomo’s desk. He has until Dec. 17 to take action.